. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. WOODilURV, CONXIiCTICUT IO£ Ben proceeded to the entry room where he hung his dinner pailon one of the hooks provided for this purpose. Then he cautiouslypeeked through the key hole; the scene presented within was as hehad hoped, and is described as follows: The teacher engaged in writ-ing and Susie Brown with bowed head studying her spelling disliked Susie, as in fact he did all persons who lavished time. on intellectual improvement, and
. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. WOODilURV, CONXIiCTICUT IO£ Ben proceeded to the entry room where he hung his dinner pailon one of the hooks provided for this purpose. Then he cautiouslypeeked through the key hole; the scene presented within was as hehad hoped, and is described as follows: The teacher engaged in writ-ing and Susie Brown with bowed head studying her spelling disliked Susie, as in fact he did all persons who lavished time. on intellectual improvement, and Susie was a strict adherent to thisrule. On many an occasion she had been called on to anwser cjues-tions that Ben could not and the humiliation accompanying herpromptness at such times only deepened his ill-founded hatred. Benstepped to the outer door and as no danger presented itself he quicklytook the toad from his pocket. Ben had the reputation of being in-human. This belief was more prevalent among the old maids andyoung girls of the community, and however universal it may havebeen, it was to an extent false, as this will show. In taking thetoad from his pocket Ben found him in a rather exhausted first and most available means of relief suggested by Bens mindwas a pail of water intended for drinking purposes. Without 102 THE Town axd pkoplk further delay Mr. Toad was plunged head first into the water pailand for the next thirty seconds he was the center of an aquatic dis-l)lay that furnished not a litle fun to pjen. Uy the use of a p
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